Harbour Master’s cottage, Cove
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 34mm, 1/500s, f8, ISO 200, Classic Chrome simulation
Category: Seaside
Single frame… Bass Rock, August 2020
Bass Rock, August 2020
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 74mm, 1/340s, f11, ISO 200
Bass Rock (Creag nam Bathais in Gaelic) is an uninhabited island in the Firth of Forth, roughly three miles north-east of North Berwick. The island is home to a colony of more than 150,000 Northern gannets (Morus bassanus) and they give it its… ‘distinctive’ colouring.
The pic was taken from Seacliff Beach and on that particularly glorious August Saturday the beach was busy with swimmers, kayakers and paddle-boarders… me? I limited myself to having a paddle!
Wordless Wednesday… PROGRESS ‘S’
PROGRESS ‘S’
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 20mm, 1/280s, f8, ISO 200
Monochrome Monday… Cove Harbour (again)
Cove Harbour, August 2020
Ondu 6×6 Pocket Pinhole + ND8 filter, 15s, f167 – Foma Pan 100
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.
I make no apologies for posting yet another image from the Ondu 6×6 Pocket Pinhole camera… I love it!
This is the last image on my first roll and I’m finally starting to get close enough to the subject.
These shellfish creels and lump of weathered wood were found beside what I think is the harbour master’s cottage at Cove and I popped the camera on the doorstep to take this pic!
Monochrome Monday… Winch, Craster, August 2020
Winch, Craster, August 2020
Ondu 6×6 Pocket Pinhole + ND8 filter, 30s, f167 – Foma Pan 100
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.
Another pinhole pic from a recent visit to Craster in Northumberland.
This winch is quietly rusting away beside the harbour and only a couple of feet away from the bench where we tucked into a picnic lunch…
Again, I could’ve done with getting much closer with the wide-angle Ondu camera!
Square Saturday… Craster on the Ondu 6×6 Pocket Pinhole camera
Craster, August 2020
Ondu 6×6 Pocket Pinhole + ND8 filter, 19s, f167 – Foma Pan 100
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.
Another pic from a recent visit to Craster in Northumberland, this time taken on the ONDU 6×6 Pocket pinhole camera.
Last weekend’s trip north came just a couple of days after I received my camera in the post so I just had to take it!
I’ve not yet got the hang of getting close enough to the subject with the camera’s wide 115° angle of view (and no viewfinder) but I’m sure practice will make perfect!
Single frame… Cove Harbour, August 2020
Cove Harbour, August 2020
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 32mm, 1/300s, f11, ISO 200
A brief trip to the Scottish Borders last weekend gave us the opportunity to explore a couple of lesser known locations on the coast below Dunbar.
Cove Harbour was one such location. The tiny natural harbour was improved in 1831 by the building of a breakwater and to all intents and purposes not much has changed since then!
Access to the harbour from land is via a tunnel through the cliffs that was dug by hand in the 1700s, a tunnel that has a number of side chambers that were used for storing fresh fish (and no doubt a variety of smuggled goods!) The chambers continued to be used as changing rooms by bathers until they were sealed up in 1981.
It’s a location I’m very keen to return to!
Wordless Wednesday… Craster Harbour Wall, August 2020
Craster Harbour Wall, August 2020
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 22mm, 1/100s, f11, ISO 320
Monochrome Monday… Yachts at rest, Isle of Whithorn
Yachts at rest, Isle of Whithorn
Fujica GW690 + Y15 yellow filter – 1/250s, f11, – Kodak T-Max 400
Yet another Fujica GW690/Kodak T-Max 400/Y15 filter image from last year’s Scottish holiday…
I really can’t wait to visit Scotland again and my fingers are tightly crossed that the trip I’ve got booked for later this year will be able to go ahead…
Epson 4870 Photo scan with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Throwback Thursday… YH10 Ellie Jane, East Runton, June 2015 (again)
YH10 Ellie Jane, East Runton, June 2015
Fujifilm X-E1, Fujinon XF 18-55mm f2.8~4 R LM OIS at 27mm, 1/80s, f9, ISO 800
What was I photographing on this day in previous years?
Five years ago it was the fishing boat ‘Ellie Jane’ at East Runton near Cromer in Norfolk.
‘Ellie Jane’ has featured on this blog before but I make no excuses for including another image from one of my favourite spots on our coastline…
Freelance Wastrel 